Ironing-board.



J. D. ST. PIERRE & E. G. GAUVIN.

IEONING BOARD.

APPLIOATION FILED 1030.20, 1909.

974,443. Patented Nov. 1, 1910.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH DIEUDONNE ST. PIERRE AND EMERY C. GAUVIN, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

IRONING-BOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 20, 1909.

Patented Nov. 1, 1910.

Serial No. 534,175.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOSEPH DIEU- noNNIi ST. PIERRE, a citizen of Canada, and EMERY C. GAUVIN, a citizen of the United States, both residing at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to portable tables and more particularly to what are known as ironing boards. It is desirable Wlllh this class of devices that the board should be supported at one end and that there should be nothing above or underneath the free end to interfere with working thereon or with, ironing a skirt or other similar article.

The object of our invention is to provlde such a board which will be firmly supported at one end and which can be instantly attached to or detached from a chair, a table, a stove, a window sill, a mantel piece, or in fact any stationary piece of furniture or part of the house near a floor which is provlded with a lip or projecting edge. To accomplish this purpose, it is necessary that the device should be capable of easy and rapid adjustment and it is desirable that in attaching and detaching it, or in operation, it should leave no marks upon the woodwork. This is especially important if it happens to be attached to ornamental woodwork.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents the device in position in connection with an ordinary table. Fig. 2 is a side view or edge view when folded. Fig. 3 is a top view of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a bottom view of the device folded.

A represents a table of the type wherein the top 11 projects slightly.

B represents the floor.

C is the top of our ironing board and is shown in the drawings as of the usual shape of an ironing board. It preferably has near one end, a hole 20 by which the device can be hung up when not in use. This end is preferably rounded as shown. The other end 21 is straight and at right angles to the length of the board. Screwed to this end and flush with the end thereof are two downwardly depending dogs 22 which pass below the surface of the board C, each dog having at its lower end a projecting arm extending outward and at right angles to the body of the dog, as shown. These projecting arms of dogs 22 pass under the edge 11 of the table or other device to which the board is to be attached. At about the middle of end 21, there is a lon itudinal slot 23, and underneath and behind this slot, we prefer to attach a transverse cleat 24.

The leg D is hinged at 25 to cleat 24 and is of such length that it will extend outward and downward from above the edge 11 of table A to a convenient point on the floor B preferably not beyond the outward end of board C, as shown. This leg D is rounded at its lower end 30 and is of such width and length that it can extend u wardly through slot 23 in board C. In the upper end of leg D, we provide a lengthwise slot 31 and through this slot, we pass a bolt 32 upon which we screw a thumb nut 33. The other end of bolt 32 is fixed in a binding cleat 34 which is preferably of wood and extends transversely across the upper end of leg D. This cleat 34 is preferably of wood or other relatively soft material and is rounded at its lower face as shown in Fig. 2. Bindin cleat 34 may be moved back and forth an adjusted in any position by loosening thumb nut 33 and then sliding cleat 34 forward or back in slot 31. We prefer to use a hook 26 attached under board 0 to engage an eye 35 in leg D to keep the parts together when folded.

The operation of our device is as follows. Hook 26 is pushed out of eye 35 and leg D is allowed to drop to the floor. Dogs 22 are pushed under the edge of the table and squarely against it. Board C is raised slightly above the level position which it is intended to occupy and thumb nut 33 is loosened and cleat 34 is moved down until it rests firmly on top of table A. Thumb nut 33 is then tightened and board C is released. By the pincer action of the parts and the powerful leverage exercised on dogs 22 and cleat 34, the device is held in position. The more weight which is put on board C, the more firmly the parts are held in place. To detach, it is necessary only to raise board G and slide the device from the table.

The principal features of our invention are the use of the depending dogs 22 flush with the end of the board which hold the board squarely in place and above the top of the object to which it is attached; the rounded end of leg D which prevents any mark being made on the floor and allows the leg to slide easily thereon; and the rounded end of cleat 34 which prevents any mark being left 011 the table.

hat we claim as our invention and desire to cover by Letters Patent is 1. In a device of the class described, the combination of a board which is round at one end and square at the other with a longitudinal slot therein, dogs which depend from the square end of the board on each side of said slot and are formed with right angular extensions at the bottom, and a transverse cleat attached to the bottom of said board behind the slot, with a leg which is rounded at its lower end has a slot at its upper end and is hinged intermediate its ends to said cleat, a binding cleat with a rounded lower face, a bolt fixed in said binding cleat and extended through the slot in the leg, and a thumb nut screwed on the free end of said bolt as described.

2. In a device of the class described, the

combination of a board which is square at one end with a longitudinal slot therein, and dogs which depend from the square end of the board on each side of said slot and are'formed with right angular extensions at the bottom, with a leg which is hinged behind said slot and projects through said slot said projecting portion being formed with a vertical slot, a binding cleat, a bolt fixed in said binding cleat and extending through the slot in the leg, and a thumb nut screwed on the free end of said bolt as described.

In testimony whereof we hereto aflix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

J. DIEUDONNE s'r. PIERRE. EMERY o. GAUVIN.

Witnesses:

GA DNER WV. PEARSON, FISHER H. PEARSON. 

